Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 What with all the forms to fill out and papers to file , it looks like the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs acquisition wo n't be formally closed until June , two or three months later than they originally figured : they should have the required stockholders meeting scheduled in the next 30 days .
2 This distraction allowed the Wolverines to close in on the flanged skirts of the arena .
3 ‘ Instead , we should keep out of things and allow the experts to get on with running The Arts Centre .
4 They do n't want the experts to come in and advise because it is the experts that have let them down . ’
5 ‘ Until we get promotion , we wo n't get the crowds to bring in the money to get the top players .
6 The ebb and flow of personnel in these agricultural communities was notable in all occupational groups , though here too the farmers were the most likely to stay put and the labourers to move on .
7 My staff erected ladders to enable the riggers to patch up the envelope and refill it with gas to obtain lift .
8 He tried to duck under the ropes to come over to us , but gets stopped by a security man who asks him what he 's playing at .
9 Allow the flames to die down with the pan off the heat .
10 Use the patterns to write down the A three .
11 It belongs to a tradition of tactical independent electoralism alongside the post-Munich Popular Front candidacies of 1938 and the attempts to put up independent anti-nuclear candidates in the 1950s and 1960s .
12 The temperature at which this freedom of the chains to take up any configuration allowed by the bond angle cone occurs will depend upon the chemical composition of the polymer , which , in turn , determines the depth and shape of the energy wells governing the probability of any configuration through a Boltzmann factor .
13 The shipmaster was down by the mast , ready to lower the cross-spar with its square sail , and the crew were flexing their muscles and setting oars in the rowlocks to slide out for the turn up against the wind into Duart Bay .
14 Often the only way for that to happen was for those already in the cities to move out and for those contemplating a move in not to come .
15 It is for the humanities to speak up for the value of retrospective conversion , and for some national planning to be undertaken to achieve this , as they , and to some extent the social sciences have most to gain from such an investment .
16 A LAW allowing the courts to lock up child criminals as young as 12 has been given the go-ahead by Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke .
17 No clear principles determine the allocation of disputes to these bodies although the greater the element of discretion and the more important the policy considerations , the less likely it is for the courts to take on the new area of responsibility .
18 When sport fails to deal adequately with the excesses of its performers , it is right and proper for the courts to take over .
19 It really is time for the courts to stamp down on motoring infringments .
20 ( One longs for the Germans to give up trying to make facsimiles of other people 's cheeses .
21 ‘ I 'm not joking , we literally , sometimes , used to sit there round a big table waiting for the scripts to come in .
22 You know how it is Elsie when you go to the show in August and they have those horses jumping and you are waiting for one of the riders to fall off .
23 at least we 'll have the notes to back up what we 're doing , and I
24 So how do you go about persuading the birds to set up home ?
25 It is likely that if an ‘ order in council ’ is to be confirmed as law , it will require an affirmative resolution of the Houses to bring about this result ( see above , pp.86–7 ) but such a procedure is not mandatory .
26 Desperate for quiet they called police who told the old-timers to pipe down .
27 On the day John-Augustus went char fishing on Buttermere with Mr Robinson and Mary went above the woods to look down on them , Coleridge passed between them .
28 It was held , appropriately , on the first day of Michaelmas when , in medieval times , pigs were traditionally turned out into the woods to fatten up on acorns .
29 Many of these will be unleashed in Britain by Lynmart , a company headed by Mr Raggett , who worked closely with the Russians to set up the British Astronaut Project , JUNO .
30 If the other participants approved a solution it would assist in persuading the Russians to join in eventually .
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